gnsu (grahical frontend for sudo) gnsu (gnsu's not su) allows a permitted user to execute a command with superuser privileges, or as any other user. gnsu shows a graphical dialog requesting the user password to allow the execution of the specified command. The user, or a group the user is part of, has to be allowed access to launching applications using sudo. gnsu is similar to gksu, and can act as a replacement for it. If gksu is not installed, gnsu will create symlinks for /usr/bin/{gksu,gksudo}, so software that expects to run commands via gksu will work with gnsu.